Jim and Jimmy Gavin reached double-digit miles daily for nearly four years!
In 1984, Jimmy became the fourth person in the U.S. to be diagnosed with AS, and has been entirely dependent on his parents, Jim and Suzy, for his entire life. The rare neuro-genetic disorder shares symptoms and characteristics with other disorders including autism, cerebral palsy, and Prader-Willi syndrome.
When Jim retired from teaching four years ago, his walking really ramped up, since an Achilles’ tendon injury put his running on hold. A colleague gave him aas a parting gift that Jim brought on all of his walks; between morning, afternoon, and evening walks—with Jimmy coming along on most of them—he began racking up some serious mileage.
Without even knowing, Jim and Jimmy’s mileage started adding up. An email from Fitbit clued them in on just how much.“Next thing I know, maybe four or five months after tracking the mileage, I get an email saying that I’ve walked the distance of the Sahara Desert,” Jim said. “Then I hit the Great Wall of China, and almost two years to the day of my retirement, it said I had walked from the North Pole to the South Pole [nearly 12,450 miles].
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